Christmas Carol
Listing Some Christmas Party Games
Simply because the gifts are opened and the paper strewn about the living room, does not imply the fun of Christmas is over. Add some Christmas party games to increase the excitement of Christmas.
If you’ve a big gathering on Christmas day, have fun with the hat game. When they arrive, give everyone a Santa hat. These are cheap and can be purchased for $1 at the dollar store, or even less in large quantities, if you plan in advance. As everyone goes about their business of getting food, talking with others and the like, the room will look very festive with everyone wearing their Santa hats.
However, the object of this game is to not have your hat on. As people forget about the hats, the point is to get rid of your hat and not be the last one wearing a Santa hat.
Inevitably there will be one individual so wrapped up in a dialogue or the buffet table, they forget to take off their hat and may be left the game’s loser. This is a game that may be played again and again as you head forward with the day’s festivities.
One fun memory game that children especially like is to make everyone give serious attention to all the gifts that are opened on Christmas day. After the gifts are removed from the room ( or you remove yourselves from the gift room ) have everyone try and remember every single gift everyone got. Include stockings and any food gifts.
Tell folk they only have to remember the items that were opened that day, not any gifts they received and opened prior to Christmas day. This is often a fun game that is especially well liked by youngsters because they love to relive the gift magic. In addition, if they were so immersed with their own gifts they didn’t notice anybody else’s, this is a good chance for them to educate themselves about what everybody got that day.
If you need a game to keep everybody busy before dinner, try the Christmas party games called “guess me” or “who’s that”. Buy some giant heavy socks, not low-rise, but the type that are worn out of doors in winter that are thick and come at least to the calf. Put many items in the socks. Make sure matching items are in each sock. These things should be related to Christmas in some way.
You might include a tiny ornament, scotch tape, a pinecone, a Hershey’s kiss, and the like. Have each person feel the socks ( having 2 socks just makes the game go faster, but you can play with just one sock ), and write down their estimates about what’s in the socks. Be certain to tell everybody how many items are in each sock. The winner gets, you guessed it…one of the socks!
If you have a handful of wanna-be performers in your group on Christmas day, how about playing a little game of “Christmas Idol”? Set up a little table for the “judges” and have teams of 2 folk ( or people, if they want ) to sing a Christmas carol. Tell them to have a lot of fun with the track, and even add a Santa hat or other dress-up items if they wish.
The winners can take home a CD of Christmas music. This game is very fun if just the children want to perform and be judged by the adults, or if, inversely, the adults perform, and are judged by the children.
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